The L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Rising Talents are presented to fifteen promising young women, from each world region (Africa and the Arab States, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America), in order to support and encourage them to pursue their scientific careers. They were selected among the best National and Regional fellows.

The L’Oréal-UNESCO International Rising Talent program is dedicated to both honoring distinguished women scientists as well as supporting promising young women researchers throughout their careers. Each year, fifteen Ph.D. students and post-doctoral Fellows are chosen from among the winners of the 275 fellows selected locally by L’Oréal subsidiaries and UNESCO around the world, these young researchers are indeed the future of science.

The International Rising Talents are already making significant contributions in disciplines as varied as ecology and sustainable development, physics, pharmacology, epidemiology, medical research, neuroscience and evolutionary biology.

This online registration platform respectively enables you to apply to the International Rising Talents program, or to participate in the selection process.

For the 2020 edition, the call for applications will be opened in June 2019